CPS Energy hires a chief sustainability officer

CPS Energy has lured a guy who is now Houston’s “sustaintainable growth” officer to be the utility’s first-ever chief sustainability officer, effective May 4.

Christopher Eugster, who holds a PhD from MIT, is also a native of College Station who earned a bachelor’s degree in electricity engineering from Texas A&M in 1987. And it sounds as if he’s a genius, too: Eugster also holds two patents in nano-transmitter design.

Eugster’s job will be to help CPS Energy morph from being a traditional energy company into a company that protects and sustains the natural resources the community will need over time, CPS officials said.